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eduKenya | 2018

Photographed by Amy & Tony Hoffer

Life is strange. In particular, it’s complicated. It’s hard to put into words the transformation that your heart can go through in a week or two, then to try to reconcile it with the life you live back home.

This was our third time in Kenya, working for eduKenya (Here is Part 1 and Part 2). Every day that we’ve gotten to spend with these wonderful people over the past 6 years has made us more grateful for life. The staff, the students and the teachers that are involved with this amazing organization all seem to realize what they have. In their school, they’ve found a bit of hope in a very, very difficult place (please see Part 1 or 2 to read some of that background).

This hope manifests itself in several ways: It comes out in the joy of the people involved, knowing that every day they bring themselves closer to leaving a cycle of poverty. Somehow even the young children seem to get this. It comes out in their work ethic as many of the children spend the entirety of their day working, learning and doing chores. It comes out in their attitude towards school, their teachers and their work.

It’s hard to leave eduKenya without a sweeping sense of hope… and a realization that if given a chance, these people are capable of great things. We’re so grateful to be part of an organization that’s trying to provide that chance. We hope these photos tell just a part of their powerful story…

This year we were honored to have Lindsay (again) and Jim join us on this journey. The photos below are a combination of images from the 4 of us. Enjoy!

Alyssa & Preston at The Stotesbury Mansion

Photographed by Associate Photographer Chris Fuertes

We’re lucky. If you read those first two words, you can probably just stop reading now.

We’ve been married for 10 years. The question we always get asked is ‘Who shot your wedding?’. The response that follows is always some sort of awkward combination of us trying to justify why we hired some random guy that didn’t really get it… mostly because we didn’t really get it back then. So we made up for that for our 5 year anniversary. We met our friend Ari in Chicago, who shot some amazing stuff for us.

Well as 10 years rolled around (has it really been 10 years???) we started to think and we wanted to do something great. Luckily for us, the ‘who will shoot it’ question was never even a little bit of an issue. We’ve got such incredible talent here on our Hoffsquad, it was just a matter of getting everybody to Arizona with us (unfortunately Farid couldn’t make the trip).

So the gang packed up and headed on an adventure around the beautiful (and incredibly hot) Page, AZ. What follows are some amazing portraits captured by Jim and Chris from our time there. There’s also a few shots sprinkled in from Amy, Tony, Lindsay and Brea. All of Amy’s awesome hair and makeup work was done by Ashley from Philly Hair & Makeup Co.

We won’t get too personal here other than to say we’re blown away that we have these people in our lives, that we got to take this trip and that we have each other (and our awesome little furry buddy). Thanks for looking!